WORLD
Film’s Focus on a Flawed Russian Figure Brings Ire With Putin Into View
By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY
Published: December 3, 2011
A documentary on the saga of the jailed former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who for some has become a symbol of opposition to Vladimir V. Putin, officially premiered in Moscow on Friday.
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Marat Guelman, a Russian art world impresario who has confronted authorities but also played a pro-Kremlin role in previous election campaigns, said while smoking outside the movie theater Friday night that the film should be shown to all Russians younger than 30. Still, he acknowledged that an increasingly open distate for Mr. Putin would not bring major political change, at least not immediately.
“The entire system has to change,” he said. “If those deputies who are elected from United Russia this time will break into left, right and centrist factions, then maybe the next elections will be real.”